Emotions Matter : A Relational Approach to Emotions / Alan Hunt, Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunt, Alan, 1942-2021, editor.

Spencer, Dale C., 1979- editor.

Walby, Kevin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Sociological aspects.

Emotions.

Emotions--Social aspects.

Social psychology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.

Contents:

Chapter 1: For a Relational Approach to Emotions

Section I: Conceptual Issues in the Sociology of Emotions. Chapter 2: Emotion's Crucible

Chapter 3: Sociable Happiness

Chapter 4: 'Feeling a Feeling' in Emotion Management

Chapter 5: Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda

Chapter 6: Religion Within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant

Chapter 7: Humanitarianism as a Politics of Emotion

Chapter 8: The Civilizing Process and Emotional Life: The Intensification and Hollowing Out of Contemporary Emotions

Chapter 9: Emotions In/and Knowing

Section II: Emotions and Empirical Investigations. Chapter 10: How Emotions Matter: Objects, Organizations and the Emotional Climate of a Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

Chapter 11: Emotional Deviance and Mental Disorder

Chapter 12: Polyamory or Polyagony? Jealousy in Open Relationships

Chapter 13: Feeling Cosmopolitan: Experiential Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan Sensibilities

Chapter 14: Autistic Autobiographies and More-than-Human Emotional Geographies.

Notes:

"The chapters comprising this edited volume originate from a workshop organized at Carleton University in May of 2009"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-9928-0

1-4426-9927-2

OCLC:

794619702